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What's your development background that prepared you to take on a project like this?

Clearly you know a lot about both low level Python internals and a fair amount about hardware design to pull this off.

I'm a software engineer by background, mostly in high-frequency trading (HFT), HPC, systems programming, and networking — so a lot of focus on efficiency and low-level behavior. I had played a bit with FPGAs before, but nothing close to this scale — most of the hardware and Python internals work I had to figure out along the way.

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